The Chongqing fish fossil depository is world’s only early Silurian Lagerstätte which preserves complete, head-to-tail jawed fishes, providing a peerless chance to peek into the proliferating ...

Anton Fritsch's well-known work upon the Vertebrate fauna of the Permian rocks of Bohemia has lately appeared, and the description of the fishes is ... from the Upper Silurian of Bohemia.

While these fish, the first true jawed fish, reached no great size during the Silurian, they were on their way to becoming one of the planet's top predators. Creepy-crawlies also began to appear ...

as it spawned a remarkable variety of fish. The most formidable of them were the armored placoderms, a group that first appeared during the Silurian with powerful jaws lined with bladelike plates ...